Victor Chandler: "We broke no rules"

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Earlier this week the English Football Association said it will investigate claims that a number of Premier League managers and players placed wagers on Premiership matches. This was spurred when a former employee of Victor Chandler, the Gibraltar-based online bookmaker, made claims that some Premier League players and managers had made many hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of bets. He also claimed that one high-profile Premier League manager makes dozens of phone bets per day and is almost £500,000 worse off for his picks.

Victor Chandler quickly sought to block public knowledge of the football figures involved, and a British High Court order granted Wednesday prohibits the names of the managers being revealed. Now Max Clifford, Victor Chandler's publicist, says on that the managers had done nothing wrong.

“There’s a court order, basically a gagging order, more